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resort

[ri-zawrt] / rɪˈzɔrt /




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When asked if they had permission to drop the boulders, Greenpeace said this was a "last resort" for it, and it did not have a licence.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

It is the last high-level meeting before a G20 leaders' summit in Miami at President Donald Trump's Doral resort in mid-December.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

With its ballroom and meeting facilities, the resort is able to attract conventions, corporate retreats and weddings as well as high-end tourism, Reay said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

A resort hotel in Transylvania’s foothills cannot guarantee safety; an enemy’s uniform doesn’t always identify an enemy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

In this part of the resort now there were hundreds of soldiers, many of them in loud gangs drifting through the streets, singing and shouting.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

They not only mimic ocean waves but also allow more surfers per day, making building resorts around them more financially feasible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

The recent sale or the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, was valued at $600 million by hotel industry analyst and broker Alan Reay, president of Atlas Hospitality, based on recent appraisals and comparable sales of other resorts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

MGM Resorts MGM -2.57%decrease; down pointing triangle International recorded lower quarterly revenue, hurt by a decline in room rates at its resorts on the Las Vegas strip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Meanwhile, bigger companies are turning to all-inclusive resorts to prop up growth.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

Majestic mountains loom to the north, but they are a tease; the Idaho of snowy peaks and ski resorts, plus a handful of militias and survivalists, is a long way off.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

Locals trapped there have resorted to hunting and eating pigeons in recent months, former residents in touch with those in the city told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

As with his mother, who wrote tall tales during his Northern Irish youth, Cohn resorted to literary imagination and exaggeration to bring the story to life.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

They said first-year students are at times arriving in classrooms lacking basic math and reasoning skills and they have often resorted to teaching remedial middle-school math concepts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Those who have stayed inside Ukraine have resorted to workarounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

George, Florah and I resorted to eating our own mucus.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s government is looking for ways to negotiate the release of the captured men before resorting to a harsher military response, said one person involved in the rescue efforts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told AFP in an exclusive interview he wants to reach a security agreement with Israel once it withdraws from the south, and is determined to disarm Hezbollah without resorting to confrontation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

“Basically, no film studio wants to give her the budget to turn her books into a movie with real actors, so she’s resorting to AI studios,” wrote one person on Reddit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

However, Conmebol did "express its concern about the repeated unilateral actions taken without resorting to dialogue or the institutional mechanisms provided for dealing with this type of situation".

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

This would give people a means of expressing their frustration without resorting to violence.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela


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